Vaccines
help keep us safe from infectious diseases. Smallpox and polio epidemics
have been wiped out by mass vaccine programs. People rush to get flu shots
every autumn, and kids are bombarded with a barrage of 22 required
vaccinations before the age of six. Even pets need their shots. The
manufacture of vaccines is a giant industry and what you pay for –
inoculations and doctor visits – is big business for pediatricians,
family practitioners and veterinarians. So why are more and more people
worried about vaccines, especially the ones for kids?

Vaccine-induced
Illness

Barbara Loe
Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Centre, a
consumer’s group based in Virginia, USA, claims vaccines are responsible
for the increasing numbers of children and adults who suffer from immune
system and neurologic disorders, hyperactivity, learning disabilities,
asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple
sclerosis, and seizure disorders. She calls for studies to monitor the
long-term effects of mass vaccination and Fisher wants physicians to be
absolutely sure these vaccines are safe and not harming people.

No one can
deny the dangers of vaccines. The measles, mumps, rubella (German measles)
and polio vaccines, all contain live but weakened viruses. Although health
officials tell you that polio has been wiped out in the US since 1979,
they often fail to mention that all recorded cases of polio since that
time are actually caused by the polio vaccine.

Vaccine
investigator Neil Z. Miller questions whether we still need the polio
vaccine when it causes every new case of polio in the USA. Before mass
vaccinations programs began fifty years ago, Miller insists we didn’t
have cancer in epidemic numbers, that autoimmune ailments were barely
known, and childhood autism did not exist.

Vaccine
Contamination

There is
also the problem of contamination that has always plagued vaccine makers.
During World War II a yellow fever vaccine manufactured with human blood
serum was unknowingly contaminated with hepatitis virus and given to the
military. As a result, more than 50,000 cases of serum hepatitis broke out
among American troops injected with the vaccine.

In the
1960s it was discovered that polio vaccines manufactured in monkey kidney
tissue between 1955 and 1963 were contaminated with a monkey virus (Simian
Virus, number 40). Although this virus causes cancer in experimental
animals, health authorities insist it does not cause problems in humans.
But evidence of SV40 genetic material has been popping up in human cancers
and normal tissue. Researchers are now connecting SV40-contaminated polio
vaccines to an increasing number of rare cancers of the lung (mesothelioma)
and bone marrow (multiple myeloma). In a 1999 report, SV40 DNA was
detected in tissue samples from four children born after 1982. Three were
kidney transplant patients, and a fourth had a kidney tumour. Could SV40
be passed on from parents to their children? No one knows for sure.

Covert
Vaccine Experiments

Using kids
as guinea pigs in potentially harmful vaccine experiments is every
parents’ worst nightmare. This actually happened in 1989-1991 when
Kaiser Permanente of Southern California and the US Centres for Disease
Control (CDC) jointly conducted a measles vaccine experiment. Without
proper parental disclosure, the Yugoslavian-made “high titre”
Edmonston-Zagreb measles vaccine was tested on 1,500 poor, primarily black
and Latino, inner city children in Los Angeles. Highly recommended by the
World Health Organisation (WHO), the high-potency experimental vaccine was
previously injected into infants in Mexico, Haiti, and Africa. It was
discontinued in these countries when it was discovered that the children
were dying in large numbers.

Unbelievably,
the measles vaccine caused long-term suppression of the children’s
immune system for six months up to three years. As a result, the
immunodepressed children died from other diseases in greater numbers than
children who had never received the vaccine. Tragically, African girl
babies in the experiment were given twice the dose of boys, and therefore
suffered a higher death rate. The WHO pulled the vaccine off the market in
1992.

Ironically,
the E-Z measles vaccine tested by Kaiser on minority babies was supposed
to increase immunity in younger infants. Instead, the vaccine produced the
opposite effect. A Los Angeles Times editorial (June 20, 1996)
assured readers that “none of the 1,500 was injured by the unlicensed
vaccine” and called upon the CDC to ensure that experiments like the E-Z
measles vaccine could never occur again.

One wonders
how many secret vaccine experiments are conducted by health authorities
that never come to the attention of the public. During the two-year
measles experiment I was employed by Kaiser and I never knew anything
about it until I read the report in The Times five years later, in
1996.

In the poor
inner cities across the United States the number of asthma cases is
exploding and health officials don’t know why. According to the CDC,
5000 asthma deaths occur annually; and it is estimated that 17.3 million
people (4.8 million are children) suffer from the disease, up from 6.7
million in 1980. Asthma usually begins before age 6, and blacks are two to
three times more likely to die from asthma than whites. In the Bronx and
Harlem sections of New York City, the hospitalisation rate for asthma is
21 times higher than in the more affluent areas of the city.

Could the
sharp rise in asthma in poor children be connected with immunosuppression
caused by a barrage of vaccines, as well as a lack of quality medical care
and insurance, poor diet, and environmental factors? The possible
connection of immunosuppressive vaccines to diseases like asthma has never
been raised by health officials.

With
vaccine experiments frequently performed in Africa and now on black
Americans, no wonder one out of every four African-Americans believes AIDS
was developed as a genocide program by the US government to exterminate
the black population.

But vaccine
experiments in the 1990s have not been limited to blacks. Millions of
female Mexicans, Nicaraguans and Filipinos have been duped into taking
tetanus vaccines, some of which contained a female hormone that could
cause miscarriage and sterilisation. In 1995, a Catholic human rights
organisation called Human Life International accused the WHO of promoting
a Canadian-made tetanus vaccine laced with a pregnancy hormone called
human choriogonadotropic hormone (HCG).

Suspicions
were aroused when the tetanus vaccine was prescribed in the unusual dose
of five multiple injections over a three month period, and recommended
only to women of reproductive age. When an unusual number of women
experienced vaginal bleeding and miscarriages after the shots, a hormone
additive was uncovered as the cause.

Apparently
the WHO has been developing and testing anti-fertility vaccines for over
two decades. Women receiving the laced tetanus shot not only developed
antibodies to tetanus, but they also developed dangerous antibodies to the
pregnancy hormone as well. Without this HCG hormone the growth of the
fetus is impaired. Consequently, the laced vaccine served as a covert
contraceptive device. Commissioned to analyse the vaccine, the Philippines
Medical Association found that 20 percent of the WHO tetanus vaccines were
contaminated with the hormone. Not surprisingly, the WHO has denied all
accusations as “completely false and without basis,” and the major
media have never reported on the controversy. For further details on this
issue, consult the Human Life International website (www.hli.org).

Newly
approved vaccines may also pose serious risks. In October 1999 a vaccine
against “rotavirus” infection (which causes most cases of childhood
diarrhea) was pulled off the market. One year after the RotaShield vaccine
was inoculated into over a million infants, it was found to increase the
risk of bowel obstruction. Almost 100 cases of bowel obstruction were
reported to the government, and twenty infants developed bowel
obstructions within one or two weeks after receiving the vaccine.

Vaccine
Manufacture and Associated Dangers

Although
the public has heard about side effects of vaccines, most people are
clueless about the manufacture of vaccines. Few people know that viruses
used in vaccine production need to be grown on animal parts like monkey
kidneys, or in chicken embryos, or in human and fetal “cell lines.”
Harvesting viruses in human cell-lines can be perilous because some human
cell lines are derived from cancer cells.

In AIDS
& The Doctors of Death I wrote about the development of the first
human “HeLa” cell line – an “immortal” cell line used
extensively in cancer and vaccine research for decades. Henrietta Lacks
was a young black woman from Baltimore who died from a highly malignant
cervical cancer in 1951. Small pieces of her tumour were donated to a
laboratory specialising in tissue cell culture. In those days most
attempts to grow human cells outside the body failed. But for some unknown
reason Henrietta’s cancer cells grew vigorously and became known as the
first successful human tissue cell line in history – the now famous HeLa
cell line commemorating the legendary HEnrietta LAcks.

Henrietta’s
cells were kept alive by feeding them a witches’ brew of beef embryo
extract (the ground-up remains of a three-week-old, unborn cattle embryo);
fresh chicken plasma obtained from the blood of a live chicken heart; and
blood from human placentas (the placenta is the sac that nurtures the
developing fetus and contains powerful hormones).

It is now
suspected that a sexually-transmitted papilloma virus is the cause of
cervical cancer. And it is anybody’s guess how many other chicken,
cattle, and human viruses are incorporated into the HeLa cell line, but
none of this possible viral contamination seems to bother scientists who
have extensively used the cells in cancer research. What laboratory
scientists did eventually discover was that HeLa cells proved so hardy
that they frequently contaminated other tissue cell lines used in cancer
and cancer virus research.

In the late
1960s when widespread HeLa cell contamination problems were uncovered,
scientists were shocked and embarrassed to learn that millions of dollars
worth of published cancer experiments were ruined. “Liver cells” and
“monkey cells” that were used in cancer experiments turned out to be
Henrietta’s cancer cells in disguise. Benign cells that supposedly
“spontaneously transformed” into malignant cells were found to be
cells contaminated with cancerous HeLa cells.

The serious
problem of HeLa cell contamination in cancer and vaccine research is
revealed in Michael Gold’s A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman’s
Immortal Legacy and the Medical Scandal It Caused. Even Jonas Salk,
who developed the legendary Salk polio vaccine, was fooled when HeLa cells
contaminated his animal cell lines. He admitted this years later in 1978
before a stunned audience of cell biologists and vaccine makers. In
experiments performed in the late 1950s on dying cancer patients, Salk
tried injecting them with a cell line of monkey heart tissue – the same
cell line he used to harvest polio virus for his famous vaccine. He hoped
the monkey cell injections would stimulate the immune system to fight
cancer. However, when abscesses developed at the site of injections, Salk
began to suspect that he might be injecting HeLa cells rather than monkey
cells, and he stopped the experiment.

Mark
Nelson-Rees, a HeLa cell expert and one of the 1978 conference attendees,
offered to test Salk’s line if it was still available. Salk graciously
agreed and the monkey cells indeed proved to be HeLa cells which had
invaded and taken over the monkey cell line. According to author Gold,
Salk thought there were adequate ways to separate viruses from the tissue
cell lines they were harvested in, so that it really didn’t matter what
kind of cells were used. Even if vaccines weren’t filtered, and even if
whole cancer cells were injected directly into a human, Salk believed they
would be rejected by the body and cause no harm. In those days doctors
didn’t much believe in cancer-causing viruses. Nowadays, no researcher
would dare try injecting cancer cells into a human being. But in the 1950s
Salk had done it accidentally. He had injected HeLa cells into a few dozen
patients and it hadn’t bothered him a bit.

Is
There a Vaccine Contamination
Connection to AIDS?

Most people
assume vaccines are “sterile” and germ free. But sterilising a vaccine
can destroy the necessary immunising protein that makes it work. Thus,
contaminating viruses or viral “particles” can sometime survive the
vaccine process.

Animal
viruses are also contained in fetal calf serum, a blood product commonly
used as a laboratory nutrient to feed various tissue cell cultures.
Vaccine contamination by fetal calf serum and its possible relationship to
HIV was the subject of a letter by J. Grote, published in the Journal
of the Royal (London) Society of Medicine in October 1988. Bovine
visna virus (which looks similar to HIV) is a known contaminant of fetal
calf serum used in vaccine production and virus-like particles have been
detected in vaccines certified for clinical use. Grote warns that “It
seems absolutely vital that all vaccines are screened for HIV prior to
use, and that bovine visna virus is further investigated as to its
relationship to HIV and its possible role in progression towards AIDS.”

Could
virus-contaminated vaccines lie at the root of AIDS? A few researchers,
including myself, believe HIV was “introduced” into gays during the
experimental hepatitis B vaccine trials when thousands of homosexuals were
injected in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, during the years
1978-1981.

The AIDS
epidemic first erupted in gays living in those cities in 1981. In 1980,
one year before, already 20% of the gays inoculated in Manhattan with the
experimental vaccine were already HIV-positive. This was several years
before definite AIDS cases were diagnosed in Africa. In the early 1970s
the hepatitis B vaccine was developed in chimpanzees, now wildly accepted
as the animal from which HIV supposedly evolved.

Hepatitis B
vaccine was developed to protect people from the sexual spread of the
hepatitis B virus. Now the government recommends that all newborn babies
be given the vaccine [this is also the case in Australia]. Such
recommendations do not make sense to many parents. And people are still
fearful of the hepatitis B vaccine because of its original connection to
gay men and AIDS. The original experimental vaccine was made from the
pooled blood serum of hepatitis-infected homosexuals and, as mentioned,
serum-based vaccines cannot be sterilised.

Another
theory of AIDS is that HIV originated from polio vaccines contaminated
with chimp and monkey viruses, and administered to Africans in the late
1950s. In The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS,
published in 1999, Edward Hooper details how polio vaccine was made using
monkey (and possibly chimp) kidneys and how the ancestor virus of HIV
could have jumped species (via the vaccine) to produce the outbreak of
AIDS in Africa. Hooper’s well-researched book greatly expands the polio
vaccine theory of AIDS first reported by Tom Curtis in Rolling Stone
magazine in 1992, and The River is a must-read for anyone
interested in the possible man-made origin of AIDS.

Other
researchers think it more likely that the various WHO-sponsored vaccine
programs (particularly the smallpox program) in Africa in the 1970s are
responsible for unleashing AIDS in Africa in the 1980s. Hooper, who has
worked as a United Nations official, has discounted the research pointing
to AIDS as a man-made disease, as proposed by Dr. Leonard Horowitz in Emerging
Viruses, and in my two books AIDS & The Doctors of Death: An
Inquiry into the Origin of the AIDS Epidemic and Queer Blood: The
Secret AIDS Genocide Plot.

Horowitz
and I both suspect contaminated smallpox vaccines as the source of HIV in
Africa. Certainly the smallpox (vaccinia-cowpox) virus is an excellent
virus to use for the genetic engineering of new, multipurpose vaccines. By
splicing into the DNA genes of the vaccinia virus, scientists can add on
parts of disease-producing viruses like influenza, hepatitis, and other
viruses. The safety of this technique has not been fully evaluated,
prompting one vaccine maker at a Vaccinia Virus Workshop in 1984 to ask if
this could lead to another form of AIDS.

Vaccine
Connection to Gulf War Illness and Huntsville Mystery Illness

The cause
of Gulf War Illness (GWI) is unknown. For years this debilitating illness
(which now affects one-half of the Gulf War vets) has been ignored by
Pentagon officials who claim the disease does not exist and that vets are
simply reacting to stress. GWI is also thought to be contagious. Vets
insist their disease has been passed on to spouses, other family members,
and even pets.

Some people
suspect multiple vaccines, particularly the experimental anthrax vaccine,
are implicated in the disease. Currently, soldiers who refuse to take the
mandatory anthrax vaccine are being court-martialled and dismissed from
the service.

Researchers
Dr. Garth Nicolson and his wife Nancy have found a tiny bacterial microbe
(a “mycoplasma”) in the blood of nearly half the ill vets with GWI.
Amazingly, this infectious agent has a piece of HIV (the AIDS virus)
attached to it. This microbe could never have occurred naturally. On the
contrary, the composition of the microbe suggests a man-made and
genetically-engineered biological warfare agent.

Garth
Nicolson’s scientific credentials are impeccable. For 16 years he was a
professor of medicine at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Centre in Houston, as well as professor of pathology and laboratory
medicine at the University of Texas Medical School, also in Houston. Nancy
Nicolson, a molecular biophysicist, was on the faculty at Baylor College
of Medicine.

Six months
after returning home from the Gulf War, the Nicolson’s daughter
contracted GWI. Her mother Nancy had contracted a similar illness in 1987
when she was working with Mycoplasma incognitus in infectious disease
research. Finally suspecting that this research had biowarfare
implications, Nancy Nicolson became a whistle-blower and angered
officials. As a result, she believes she was deliberately infected with
the mycoplasma. After partial paralysis and a long illness, she finally
regained her health with the antibiotic Doxycycline.

The
Nicolson’s discovery of a similar mycoplasma (but without the attachment
of HIV) in a mysterious illness that erupted in the Huntsville, Texas area
among prison guards and their families has all the drama of a ‘Movie of
the Week’. Although the Huntsville disease broke out in the late 1980s
(shortly before the Gulf War), it has many of the same signs and symptoms
of GWI. Many locals are convinced the sometimes deadly disease originally
spread from prisoners incarcerated in several large prisons around
Huntsville.

In
experiments conducted during the 1970s and 80s, the prisoners were
inoculated with flu vaccines containing genetically engineered viruses and
mycoplasma. It is suspected that vaccines were being covertly developed
and deployed as biological warfare weapons. Nobel prize winner James
Watson, world famous for his discovery of the molecular structure of DNA
and a leading researcher of the still ongoing Human Genome Project, was
involved in these prison experiments. The guards are convinced the
Huntsville mystery illness is intimately connected to these experiments,
jointly conducted by the Medical School and the military. Like GWI, health
officials deny the disease exists.

The
Nicolsons continue to developed antibiotic treatments, which have helped
some vets. But they have paid a heavy price for their controversial
research and unprecedented discoveries. Garth Nicolson was forced to
resign from M.D. Anderson in 1996. His career and reputation destroyed,
the Nicolsons have since moved to California and head The Institute for
Molecular Medicine in Huntington Beach.

Dangerous
Animal and Human Cell Lines
in Vaccine Manufacture

In an
effort to quell concerns about the safety of vaccines, scientists are
finally taking another look at the “non-infectious” particles of
bird-cancer viruses (avian leukosis virus) in the mumps/measles/rubella
vaccines routinely given to kids. Could this be the reason the US Federal
Drug Administration held a meeting in September, 1999, to reconsider using
human tumour cell lines (like HeLa) rather than monkey kidneys and chicken
embryos which are no longer guaranteed 100% safe?

Writing in Science,
Gretchen Vogel admits public trust in vaccines is a bit shaky. In Wales
anti-vaccine parents are holding “measles parties” to infect their
children with the disease rather than vaccinate them. She cites the danger
of using immortal cell lines for live vaccine production because cancer
genes or other hazardous factors might be transferred to people receiving
vaccines. But manufacturers also realise vaccine critics are becoming more
wary of vaccines made in animal and bird tissue. And vaccine makers want
to use immortal cell lines to grow their viruses because obviously viruses
can’t grow on their own.

The big
question everyone seems to avoid is: Can vaccines cause cancer? There is
certainly evidence connecting contaminated vaccines to AIDS. And HIV is a
cancer-causing virus. Robert Gallo, the co-discoverer of HIV in 1984, has
clearly stated AIDS is an epidemic of cancer.

Animal and
avian viruses can contaminate vaccines and have all been studied as
cancer-causing agents. And cancer and vaccine research would be much more
difficult without the use of cell lines, some of which are derived from
cancer.

Vaccines
and Public Paranoia

Is the fear
of vaccines justified? It is clear that vaccines can be dangerous. The
contamination of vaccines is a reality, and vaccine experiments can be
hazardous to one’s health. AIDS, unknown two decades ago, is now an
increasing worldwide epidemic with millions of death predicted for the
next decade. Could vaccines contaminated with cancer-causing and
immunosuppressive viruses unleash new plagues in the New Millennium? If
so, the new plagues may be far worse than the diseases we eradicated by
vaccine programs in the twentieth century.

__________________________________________________________
Alan Cantwell is a physician and AIDS researcher. His book on the man-made
epidemic of AIDS entitled AIDS & The Doctors of Death: An Inquiry
into the Origin of the AIDS Epidemic, is available on the Internet
through Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble, in Australia through Infinity
Bookshop in Sydney, Tel: (02) 92122225. Comprehensive information on the
dangers of vaccines available at http://209.1.224.11/HotSprings/1158/Vaccines.htm

The
above article appeared in
New Dawn No. 63 (November-December 2000)

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